It's not just the resources we have today, in yesteryear we had the MSDN that had an annual subscription and release, we had more books etc. Today, there are p

It's not just the resources we have today, in yesteryear we had the MSDN that had an annual subscription and release, we had more books etc. Today, there are promotions and aggressive business fighting of formalization within our field. People who slow down and plan out systems have been weeded out of organizations. People who make things and "ship" quickly are rewarded. This has been the same with quality control in software, and even goes down to bad developers refusing to unit test. Time to being promoted has shortened as well. Now it's not unusual for a dev to be a senior within 2-3 years. Lead in 5. That's just the start of their career. I haven't heard the last time that the title "Jr" was used. > Build and learn along the way It's always been that way but you had a lot more oversight from people that were much more senior.